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Formatting issues when drag & dropping into Word 2007

Jan 5, 2011 10:04PM PST

Hello all,

I have noticed a formatting glitch of sorts when pasting into Word 2007 docs from the most recent version of firefox (something that I do all day) - when copy&pasting it is possible to set the default formatting or style to that of the original soutrce, the document etc, but not for dragging and dropping. So, if I copy and paste something from a webpage into my document it will flick over to me 'normal' style template when it lands in the document, but if I drag and drop it into the doc it will keep it's original formatting, requiring me to constantly re-styling the whole document.

This wouldn't be an issue, but I am a brit working for americans, and I depend on spell-check to catch US/UK mistakes like behaviour/behavior that I can't help making when I type - but when the style is switched without me realising, my default language also switches from US English to UK English, leading to errors...any ideas?

Thanks,

Mat

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